Is it mandatory to get a prius to live in the bay area, CA?

[burritos]

So we're up here in the east bay and serious, every 4th car parked or driving on the road is a prius. Ok that's an exaggeration. To be accurate it's like every 5th car. Even my friends who haven't bought a car in like 20 years, met up with us in their new prius.


I guess the Bay area people got double servings of brain when they were serving them out.

[Tech_Guy]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(burritos @ Sep 7 2007, 04:01 PM) [snapback]508774[/snapback]</div>

So we're up here in the east bay and serious, every 4th car parked or driving on the road is a prius. Ok that's an exaggeration. To be accurate it's like every 5th car. Even my friends who haven't bought a car in like 20 years, met up with us in their new prius.
I guess the Bay area people got double servings of brain when they were serving them out.
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Huh??? I was under the impression that the only new car available here in the Silicon Valley was the Prius.

Keith

[siliconhybrid]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Tech_Guy @ Sep 7 2007, 06:30 PM) [snapback]508785[/snapback]</div>

Huh??? I was under the impression that the only new car available here in the Silicon Valley was the Prius.

Keith
[/b]

The number 1 selling car in Bay Area. Lucky, mine has the carpool stickers.

I wonder what should I do with my extra carpool stickers (DMV sent me replacement for my old one)... long story...

[darelldd]

> Is it mandatory to get a prius to live in the bay area, CA?

Yeah... but only because EVs aren't available...

[Sonny Jim]

On my last visit to San Francisco, I couldn't help but to think how nice my Prius would be in that environment, given the volume of traffic and the size of the streets and parking spaces, so I'm not surprised. The increase in numbers in Southern California is noticeable as well.

[zqfmbg]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(siliconhybrid @ Sep 7 2007, 06:01 PM) [snapback]508823[/snapback]</div>

I wonder what should I do with my extra carpool stickers (DMV sent me replacement for my old one)... long story...
[/b]

Frame them and put them up on your wall. That's about all you can do. (Selling them to others has been beaten to death -- they're tied to your VIN and cannot be changed.)

Oh, and yes, if you're not driving a Prius, your municipal sales tax triples. Didn't you know that? :P

[Vagabond]

No, San Fransisco isn't allowing anymore hybrid's to be sold due to the dangerously high increase of smug in the air.

Also, George Clooney has been banned from the city.

[MarinJohn]

There was a time when California led the nation. Now that the knuckle-dragging republicans have lost their nerve and grip on 'follow the chimp' perhaps we here on the left coast (and Madison, and Austin and Ashville) can resume our lead.

[F8L]

LOL

I am always amazed when I see posts from someone in a another part of the nation who complains about never seeing another Prius on the road. I'm so used to driving through the Bay Area up to Sacramento and seeing nearly uncountable numbers of Prius, that is is difficult to imagine not seeing any. Even when I stay near home, (Lincoln/Sacramento) I see dozens throughout the day.

Go visit the Google parking lot and your jaw will drop.

[siliconhybrid]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(F8L @ Sep 8 2007, 11:07 AM) [snapback]509071[/snapback]</div>

Go visit the Google parking lot and your jaw will drop.
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If I were employed by google, I would sell my other cars, & buy 3 Priuses. $5000 subsidy is just to hard to pass.